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Determinants of international long-distance eldercare: Evidence from Ghanaian immigrants in the United States.

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正題名/作者:	Determinants of international long-distance eldercare: Evidence from Ghanaian immigrants in the United States./
作者:	Kodwo, Stephen Raymond.
面頁冊數:	193 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-05, Section: A, page: 1785.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-05A.
標題:	Social Work. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3358191
ISBN:	9781109167511

Determinants of international long-distance eldercare: Evidence from Ghanaian immigrants in the United States.
Kodwo, Stephen Raymond.

Determinants of international long-distance eldercare: Evidence from Ghanaian immigrants in the United States. - 193 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-05, Section: A, page: 1785.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Virginia Commonwealth University, 2009.

Studies of Ghanaians who have immigrated to the United States indicate that both economic and emotional support continue to be provided to non-migrant families in Ghana. However support to "family relatives" has been studied generally, without specifying age. Thus, relationships between immigrants and their elderly relatives, particularly those who may be frail and vulnerable, have not been the focus of previous research. In addition, it is necessary to examine the dynamics that shape attitudes towards elderly people, and which in turn influence eldercare patterns among Ghanaian immigrants. Based on the literature, the researcher identified four factors relevant to international long-distance eldercare: (1) support caregivers receive (or previously received) from elderly relatives, (2) filial obligation towards elderly relatives, (3) perceived vulnerability of the elderly people in Ghana, and (4) vulnerabilities that make immigrants unable to provide eldercare. The main objective of this study was to examine the extent to which these four factors shape the provision of eldercare by Ghanaian immigrants in the United States to their elderly relatives in Ghana. To achieve this objective, a convenience sample of 124 Ghanaian immigrants who resided in a large metropolitan area in the southern United States was surveyed.

ISBN: 9781109167511Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Social Work.

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520 $a Implications of the study for social work research include the importance of further exploration of factors that might result in reduction in the care immigrants provide to their non-migrant elderly relatives, and replication of the current study with the view of explaining the inability of both elderly relatives' and immigrants' vulnerabilities to predict level of care. Given the possible psychological distress xii associated with caregiving and its effect on immigrants' time and financial resources, social work practitioners need to be sensitive to the financial and emotional aspects of long distance caregiving by providing services to caregivers who may need them. Policy implications include maximizing remittances by reducing transaction cost and using remittance as leverage for financial grants for family investments.
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